HardCopy
E170431
HardCopy is Altera’s family of structured ASIC devices designed to provide a low-cost, high-performance, and power-efficient alternative to traditional FPGAs for volume production.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HardCopy canonical | 1 |
| HardCopy II | 1 |
| HardCopy III | 1 |
| HardCopy IV | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1499757 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HardCopy Context triple: [Altera, majorProductFamily, HardCopy]
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A.
The Paper
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B.
Gutenberg
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C.
Mr. Papers
Mr. Papers is a rapper best known for his on-and-off romantic relationship with hip-hop icon Lil' Kim.
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D.
The Art of Book-Making
"The Art of Book-Making" is a humorous, satirical essay by Washington Irving that playfully critiques unoriginal authorship and literary plagiarism.
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E.
Colophon
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HardCopy Target entity description: HardCopy is Altera’s family of structured ASIC devices designed to provide a low-cost, high-performance, and power-efficient alternative to traditional FPGAs for volume production.
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A.
The Paper
The Paper is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard that follows the hectic, deadline-driven day at a New York City tabloid newspaper.
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B.
Gutenberg
Gutenberg is the block-based content editor introduced in WordPress to enable more flexible, visual page and post creation.
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C.
Mr. Papers
Mr. Papers is a rapper best known for his on-and-off romantic relationship with hip-hop icon Lil' Kim.
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D.
The Art of Book-Making
"The Art of Book-Making" is a humorous, satirical essay by Washington Irving that playfully critiques unoriginal authorship and literary plagiarism.
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E.
Colophon
Colophon was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, historically notable as one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the poet Homer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
integrated circuit product family
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structured ASIC family ⓘ |
| advantageOver |
traditional FPGAs in performance for fixed designs
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traditional FPGAs in power efficiency ⓘ traditional FPGAs in unit cost for high volumes ⓘ |
| architecture | mask-customized metal layers over predefined base array ⓘ |
| basedOn | predefined logic array ⓘ |
| belongsToBrand | Altera HardCopy family ⓘ |
| benefit |
improved power and performance versus FPGAs in volume
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lower NRE cost than traditional cell-based ASICs ⓘ shorter time-to-market compared to full-custom ASICs ⓘ |
| companyLaterAcquiredBy |
Intel Corporation
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surface form:
Intel
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| comparedTo | traditional FPGAs ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | corresponding Altera FPGA families ⓘ |
| currentBrandOwner |
Intel Corporation
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surface form:
Intel (via acquisition of Altera)
|
| designedFor | volume production ⓘ |
| designFlow | FPGA-to-structured-ASIC migration flow ⓘ |
| designToolSupport |
Quartus design software
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surface form:
Altera Quartus II
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| developedBy | Altera ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
HardCopy
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
HardCopy II
HardCopy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
HardCopy III
HardCopy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
HardCopy IV
|
| integrationWith | Altera FPGA design flow ⓘ |
| lifecycleStage | production deployment after FPGA prototyping ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Altera ⓘ |
| market |
cost-sensitive applications
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high-volume electronic products ⓘ performance-critical applications ⓘ |
| optimizationGoal |
cost reduction at high production volumes
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performance optimization ⓘ power reduction ⓘ |
| productCategory |
ASIC device
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FPGA-to-ASIC migration solution ⓘ |
| reconfigurability | non-reconfigurable in the field ⓘ |
| supports | migration from Altera FPGAs ⓘ |
| targetUseCase |
high-performance implementation
ⓘ
low-cost implementation ⓘ power-efficient implementation ⓘ |
| technologyType | structured ASIC ⓘ |
| typicalApplication |
communications equipment
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consumer electronics ⓘ industrial systems ⓘ networking equipment ⓘ |
| uses | custom metal routing for final design ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: HardCopy Description of subject: HardCopy is Altera’s family of structured ASIC devices designed to provide a low-cost, high-performance, and power-efficient alternative to traditional FPGAs for volume production.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
HardCopy II
this entity surface form:
HardCopy III
this entity surface form:
HardCopy IV